Mika Braginsky
Pronouns:
they/them
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Iām a graduate student in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, advised by Ted Gibson.
Before that I was a research assistant in the Language and Cognition Lab at Stanford, working with Mike Frank.
Research
Variability and Consistency in Early Language Learning: The Wordbank Project
Book of large-scale cross-linguistic analyses using data from the Wordbank project
Consistency and variability in children's word learning across languages
Paper on predicting words' acquisition trajectories from their properties
Tools
Wordbank + wordbankr
Database of vocabulary development data and R package for accessing it
childes-db + childesr
Database of child language transcripts and R package for accessing it
peekbank + peebankr
Database of developmental eyetracking datasets and R package for accessing it
Wordful
Smartphone app for tracking early vocabulary growth
rwebppl
R interface to the WebPPL probabilistic programming language
tidyboot
R package for doing tidyverse-compatible bootstrapping
ggpirate
R package for making plots of data with categorical independent variables
jglmm
R package for fitting generalized linear mixed effects models in Julia
Teaching
Laboratory in Psycholinguistics
Course in spring 2018 & spring 2019
Large-scale data tools in language acquisition
Workshop at LSA Summer Institute 2019
Miscellaneous
Interactive visualizations
Cambridge election results 2019
Trends in name genders
Multilingual translation